Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Weekend after weekend
I suppose that since I don't currently work (other than on writing at home), it could be seen as ironic that I was so damned busy last weekend, and will be even busier this weekend. I blogged
in advance of last weekend, and covered the basics.
Saturday: Kali stick seminar in the morning, bridal shower in the afternoon, dad visiting and dinner that evening.
Sunday: Up early, drove up to Sonoma with dad, did some wine tasting, drove over to Bodega Bay on the coast, drove back with a lot of traffic, had a pre-Bday dinner for dad that night.
Monday: Up early, drove over to Mt. Diablo with dad and did some very light hiking, then had lunch at Sweet Tomatoes and hit a few stores and other errands before returning home in the evening so he could get to Oakland for his flight out at 7.
It sounds rather vacation-y, and it was for dad, I guess, but I was hella tired the whole time and hardly had any computer time at all, as the lack of blog posts attested. I didn't get any fiction done at all either, other than some quick proof reading at night. The biggest source of fatigue though, was my body's inability to adjust to the different schedule. I'm always a night owl, happiest waking around noon, screwing around and going to the gym and such in the afternoon, then working once it gets dark and keeping at it all night, until bedtime around dawn. This is my usual cycle, and I have a great deal of trouble breaking it by going to bed earlier, no matter how tired I am.
So when I got up Friday morning at 10, after going to bed at 7ish, in hopes that I'd be tired Friday night and get some sleep before the early morning Kali on Saturday, I had dim hopes it would work. And it didn't; I wasn't at all tired Friday night, and didn't get into bed until around 4. I didn't go to sleep even then, tossing and turning and dozing until maybe 5:30, when I finally fell asleep... for two hours, since the alarm went off at 7:15 and we were out the door before 8, with a 45 minute drive south to Union City and the park wherein the seminar was being held. (We needed an outdoor location for the staff workshop, since that sort of thing requires a lot of space, especially overhead.)
After 2 or 3 hours of sleep I had to be tired Saturday night, right? I was getting up by 8 or so to drive over to dad's hotel and then head up to Sonoma, after all. Guess again. I got to sleep by midnight just fine, and then woke up at 4, laid in bed until 5, gave up, got up, and worked (incoherently) on the computer until 8, by which time I was feeling really sleepy again. Once Malaya got up and left for her Sunday morning Kali class I set the kitchen timer for 45 minutes and went back to bed, and slept like a log until the buzzer woke me at 9. I was out the door heading for dad's hotel 10 minutes later, thanks to not needing to eat any breakfast, since I had eaten during my early morning non-sleeping time.
Sunday night was more of the same, with no sleep until nearly 5am, and a 8am wake up time, and the oddest thing was that I got right back onto my usual schedule Monday. I was up that night until 6am Tuesday, but then I slept for a good 7 hours, and did the same Tuesday night. I seem to be more locked into my "sleep only in the daytime" cycle than I used to be, since I could flip it around by staying up for 24 hours, or by getting 2 or 3 hours of sleep one night, and then going to bed early the next day. Now my body sticks to the schedule no matter what, apparently. I think you can safely expect to see my signings in the afternoon and evening, when future hypothetical book tour time comes.
The fun will continue this weekend, since we're leaving Friday afternoon to drive down to Long Beach with our kali Gura and her fiancee. She's doing a couple of demos at the Pacific Media Expo, and Malaya and I may be assisting in some way. We're all getting into the event for free, at least, but we're sharing a big hotel room with two beds, and since I can't sleep at night, and I can't sleep in hotels, it looks pretty unlikely that I'll be sleeping at all. Oh well, it'll be fun to attend the event and see some martial arts demos and check out all the cos players and maybe buy some anime DVDs. We'll be there Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, and then drive back Monday. I can catch up on sleep then!
Other than the convention, I dunno what we're doing in Long Beach. Maybe looking up some martial arts stores, or site-seeing a bit, but we don't have any real firm plans, that I know of. If I could just count on being able to actually sleep some while we're there, I'd be pretty damn excited about the whole thing.
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